If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.